著者

若尾 良徳

出版者

日本体育大学

雑誌

日本体育大学紀要 (ISSN:02850613)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, no.1, pp.35-44, 2017-09-30

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This study investigated age norm about romantic love behaviors, which is the awareness of timing of the first experience of romantic love behaviors. The age norm was divided into lower limit and upper limit: the lower limit means the acceptable age to initiate romantic love behaviors, and the upper limit means up to what age person is expected to experience romantic love behaviors. 349 university students replied to the questionnaire about approval and recognition of age norm, and the expected age. In result, many of them did not approve the age norm, but they recognized the existence of age norm about romantic love behaviors. The order of expected age was similar to that of “developmental stages in romantic love” (Matsui, 1990, 2000). In lower limit of age norm, there are more male than female who approved the lower limit of age norm, while in the upper limit, it was a reverse result. I discussed the influences of age norm toward the people who have no experiences of romantic love behaviors.